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Post by refugeepea on Jul 30, 2017 5:05:03 GMT
Any links you can show me? In the past, I tend to use lots of photos, so the bold pattern is more subtle, but I want this one to stand out! My issue is getting a title to stand out from the wild pattern paper. Then, there's such a sharp contrast of solid title and wild paper if that makes sense. Do I jazz up the title with glitter? Find a smaller sized pattern paper for the title (from a cricut cartridge). I currently am shuffling and reshuffling photos around a page and I DO want to use this paper. Then, in my quest to figure this out, I went through my stack of misc. paper. In there, I did find around 10 fabulous, fun, bold graphic paper. Now, how to use them.  I tend to be a B side scrapper and that is generally by background paper or solid cardstock. I am stuck. |
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Post by auroraborealis on Jul 30, 2017 5:42:53 GMT
Hmm, can you share what paper it is, or something similar? You're going to make your letters with the Cricut? Do you have enough photos where you can overlap or put your title on a less important photo? Either wholly, or partially on the photo and partially on paper (could slide a plainer paper under there as an accent so the letters don't sit on the bold pattern paper)? Or do a tag-type embellishment cluster on the edge of a photo and have the letters run from the tag and onto a photo?
I do like the glitter idea a lot.
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Post by QueSeraSera on Jul 30, 2017 7:44:43 GMT
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Post by dasmith2 on Jul 30, 2017 10:29:29 GMT
I tend to use busy backgrounds from time to time but I break them up a little with a mat of some sort. Maybe this will help? Its not my best page, but does have a busy background  |
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Post by grammadee on Jul 30, 2017 11:13:20 GMT
Setting the title on its own matt is a great idea. Then overlapping with the photos, or journaling spot, even better. Can you cut shadow letters to back those in your title? Or run a border strip-- or a set of them-- as a shelf for your title? Plain cs or washi might do the trick. Heres is one I saw on Pinterest with the pp cut on bias and white space for the title . thespottedleopard.blogspot.ca/2016/04/smile.htmlGood luck! Would love to see your finished product, refugeepea |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 30, 2017 11:36:43 GMT
When I use a very busy background, I mat the photos always.
I also give the title some "clean space" by either using another mat that matches the photo mats in shape, or diecutting a circle in cardstock, etc. I also like to pop-dot the mat with the title up so it literally stands apart from the busy background.
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Post by auroraborealis on Jul 30, 2017 12:53:20 GMT
Hold off on these links--I need to fix them and figure out how to make them link right--thanks for the heads up nicolep that they aren't working right.Here are some ideas I found. We'll see if I can figure out how to do links (these are from pinterest). I also saw a lot of "using larger title letters" and using glitter or other extra-pop-y letters to help on bold paper. new attempt at linking linkNot the greatest example, but does run the title on a "photo" and uses cardstock tucked under New link attempt linkNot the busiest background overall, but busy near the title: new link attempt link
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Post by nicolep on Jul 30, 2017 13:18:08 GMT
I love that one grammadee! auroraborealis I'm not sure if it's my new phone or not but for each of those links that you posted they just take me to my general Pinterest feed? If I use a busy background that is generally very colorful I will often times convert my photo to black and white. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2017 13:21:42 GMT
If I love the busy paper, (and i often do, )I use large pictures with big mats,and if it's still too busy, cover the bold pattern Partially with vellum.
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Post by msliz on Jul 30, 2017 13:23:21 GMT
Your issue is getting the title to stand out from the wild pattern paper, so the easiest solution is to give the title something solid to stand against. If you don't want to mat it, you could use a washi, ribbon, or paint ground. Anything solid color behind the title.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jul 30, 2017 13:38:05 GMT
You can also mat your title on vellum so that the pattern is still visible but muted under the title.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 30, 2017 17:09:38 GMT
Thank you for all your suggestions. I think I need to do some type of mat and change the letters to a darker color so they stand out more. This is also an 8.5x11 page with two 4x6 photos, so there's not a lot of extra space.
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Post by anniefb on Jul 30, 2017 18:23:42 GMT
I also use vellum if a background is very busy, and mat photos - or at least have a while border around them to make them stand out.
If a pattern is very busy, I often use small pieces of it as mats, rather than as the full background sheet.
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Post by scrapnnana on Jul 31, 2017 3:31:32 GMT
As others have pointed out, matting helps both photos and titles to stand out from a busy background.
I use matting a lot, anyway, but if I have a very busy background, I may even double or triple mat my photos.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jul 31, 2017 4:58:44 GMT
I group my photos together and mat them as one photo and put it in the center where all the background is around it. Sort of like this:   This is pretty much how I use those patterns as a background too. |
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Post by christinec68 on Jul 31, 2017 13:12:40 GMT
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Post by grammadee on Jul 31, 2017 13:47:53 GMT
Thank you for all your suggestions. I think I need to do some type of mat and change the letters to a darker color so they stand out more. This is also an 8.5x11 page with two 4x6 photos, so there's not a lot of extra space. You could also use the same pp for your title, but lighten/mute or darken/brighten up the colour with inks or sprays. Inking the edges of individual letters might help, too, or gluing them down then outlining each letter with a pen. |
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 31, 2017 13:55:11 GMT
Another vote for matting the photos and the title (or outlining the title letters with a contrasting colour, most likely white).
I sometimes like to group my photos right next to each other too if the background swallows everything up (and add a mat, of course). Instead of having some space between the photos, I stick them right next to each other (works very well for square or horizontal photos on a vertical rectangle like 8.5x11) so I have one big heavier element to impose upon the busy pattern and trick the eye into focusing in on the photos instead of the paper.
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Post by infochick on Jul 31, 2017 19:39:26 GMT
There are lots of really great ideas in this thread. Like others have mentioned, I have also recently re-discovered vellum. I find it works great on busy backgrounds to mellow some or all of the pattern a bit. I recently used them on some rather dated photo-realistic style paper to push the pattern into the background and let the photos stand out.
Another thing that I do to make titles stand out is to change the texture of the title. Sometimes I will use a subtle patterned paper, but cut the title once in pattern paper and once in chipboard and then glue the layers together which creates some depth. Inking the edges of the stack helps as well, and sometimes I will even coat them in glossy accents if I want a bold title. Using foam squares to mount the letters helps them stand out as well.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 31, 2017 21:37:00 GMT
I group my photos together and mat them as one photo and put it in the center where all the background is around it. Sort of like this: Where do you get your photos printed? What sizes do you typically get? Do you use some photo editing program to do those collages? I'm not there yet with my page, but I found a darker small pattern paper to be a small border around the busy pattern paper. I admit I'm being lazy, but the photos I have printed have a white border, so I'm trying to just leave them alone. I probably could trim down the vertical 4x6 photo to another size to leave more space. I'm going to use the same darker small pattern as some type of matt for the title. I normally don't do titles because it's usually obvious what is going on with the photos, so I think the title is throwing me off. It's just my son in a Halloween costume.  |
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 31, 2017 22:57:44 GMT
I group my photos together and mat them as one photo and put it in the center where all the background is around it. Sort of like this: Where do you get your photos printed? What sizes do you typically get? Do you use some photo editing program to do those collages? I'm not there yet with my page, but I found a darker small pattern paper to be a small border around the busy pattern paper. I admit I'm being lazy, but the photos I have printed have a white border, so I'm trying to just leave them alone. I probably could trim down the vertical 4x6 photo to another size to leave more space. I'm going to use the same darker small pattern as some type of matt for the title. I normally don't do titles because it's usually obvious what is going on with the photos, so I think the title is throwing me off. It's just my son in a Halloween costume. I often get 2 prints on 1 4x6 since I am scrapping 8.5x11 and not every photo needs to be 4x6 and using up real estate on the page and in filling books more quickly. I do 4x6 for special photos or those that just look better larger. I still use collage on picasa and then upload to Walmart but Photosheet does the same - anything you can make a collage print out of. I also use the square photo option when I upload to Walmart. I try to use my paper and other scrap stuff to go along with the photos so the photos are often of equal importance rather than the most important thing on the layout. My son took about 20 photos on a recent day trip to Washington DC. I printed 3 photos in 4x6 and the rest are on a collage print of 2 photos. That way the 2 photos will take up maybe 2 two page spreads instead of a whole bunch of pages of one event. My son takes photos of things he thinks are interesting, like soda fountains and food, and those just don't need a 4x6 in my mind! |
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Post by dald222 on Aug 2, 2017 18:41:54 GMT
I made this last month  it has a very busy background I love it though Attachments:
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Post by loco coco on Aug 2, 2017 19:36:49 GMT
Ive been using a lot of busy background paper lately. I love the examples posted in this thread!
I always mat but lately Ive been adding a little white texture paste under my photo or title area to soften that area a little bit
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Post by woodysbetty on Aug 2, 2017 20:45:42 GMT
 Those layouts are awesome!!
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Post by christinec68 on Aug 2, 2017 22:53:23 GMT
Those layouts are awesome!! Awww...thanks!! |
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I tend to be a B side scrapper and that is generally by background paper or solid cardstock. I am stuck.
it has a very busy background 
Those layouts are awesome!!
